countries. That country would soon be called North and South Korea. They had to build a wall in the 39th parallel so that the countries would fight and hurt any of their loyal citizens in the country.They called this wall the demilitarized zone or the DMZ. This was the first time in history that had to have a dedicated DMZ to separate a country from going into war. This wall is built and has not caused war yet in any of the countries yet. Since Korea forged the DMZ to separate the…
themselves in care of the red cross who are waiting to take them to their father in Seoul. Sookan has found freedom finally after a whole life of oppression and can live like a normal girl, something her mother had always wished for. She now has a nice house, her father, and her brothers in a place where she can go to school and the ability to pursue the future she wishes to have. Along with Sookan, I have also learned that family is supposed to do anything for each other no matter what it…
Before the second World War has started, the Korean Peninsula had been a part of Japan. After the war had ended, it needed to be split up. The Northern part went under the control of the Soviet Union and the Southern part under the control of the United States. The Soviet Union was communist and the United States was against communism. The two sides were divided at the 38th parallel. Both sides, the North and South, were not getting along and they were having constant skirmishes and battles…
the Korean War. The Korean War was fought from June 25 1950, to July 1953, after upwards of 5 million soldiers and civilians from North Korea, South Korea, China and America lost their lives. Although there were many lives lost, the Korean War was beneficial to America and the Koreas. This paper will overview what the Korean War was and why it happened, and why it was important to the world today. In August 1945, the USSR and United States divided the ex-Japanese colonie of Korea along the…
The Korean War officially started in 1950 and ended in an armistice in 1953 with the Demilitarized zone falling at its pre-war position on the 38th parallel. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea), with support from its Communist neighbors of China and the Soviet Union, invaded south past the 38th parallel in June of 1950 attacking the Republic of Korea (South Korea). North Korea’s invasion resulted in initial success until the United Nations intervened in the defense of South…
history that would divide a country in half and change its government forever. On the north side of the 38th parallel, stood a country ruled under democratic Soviet communism and on the southern side a country influenced by republican control. It is important to understand the reason for the separation and how it affected the Korea’s we know today. This paper will discuss how North Korea and South Korea divided and the profound impact the war had on communist rule to include the United States…
War, the United States and the Soviet Union held a temporary trusteeship. The Soviet Union or Red Army occupied the territory north of the 38th Parallel. Whereas, the United States occupied…
Korea was shattered when North Korean troops crossed the 38th parallel, invading South Korea and ultimately leading to a conflict that would span three years and cost an estimated 2.5 million lives. Korea had been liberated from Japanese control in 1945 by Soviet troops who moved down into the north of the country and US troops who landed in the south. After this the country was divided along the 38th parallel of latitude until the country could be reunited following new elections. There were…
States and 11 other Western Nations (Doc E). NATO had the goal of preventing communism from spreading further from the Communist Eastern bloc. The United States was highly successful in containing communism in Western Europe. The United States was not as successful in containing communism in other areas of the world. In 1954, the United States adopted the “falling domino” principle (Doc H). The “falling domino” principle is the belief that if one nation falls to communism, neighboring nations…
North Korea can be seen as a child. They have a small nuclear stockpile, and are trying to show its power by testing missiles, then making claims of having powerful weapons, and suddenly, when North Korea doesn’t get their way, Kim Jong-un starts making threats of nuclear war. Now is the time for the United Nations to step in and do something. Korea was originally a part of the Japanese Empire. In November 1943, Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek met at the Cairo…